landscape photography! I mean that's a pretty broad term isn't it photographs
of land how do you define landscape photography well I'm not so sure you do
landscape photography encompasses a vast array of sub-niches and on today's
episode I'm in the northernmost part of the Philippines a place called batanas a
place that's often been described as a landscape photography paradise it's
windy but it is absolutely beautiful ever since the first time I came to the
Philippines two years ago everybody's been saying go to batanas go to batanes
so finally I took them up on it and I'm here and I kind of wanted to
turn it into a bit of a challenge to see how many different styles of
landscape photography I can do in just a couple days
it's windy this morning but it does have a lot of potential this view is
phenomenal I've got 16-35mm on right now going for that hero shot really why
I've got a lighthouse over in that part of the frame got this Beach down here
got the sea stacks out that way and of course basco mountain with the beautiful
light that's starting to pop on it I think this is going to be phenomenal
ah the hero image the hero images to landscape photography what full nudity
is to the human body it's bare all nothing left to the imagination
landscape photography it's the whole picture
it's that epic image that leads people to think I want to go stand there
I'm actually also gonna shoot the second form of landscape photography this
morning as well which is the panel the panel is really helpful for scenes like
this that are massively wide but don't have a whole lot going on on the bottom
or the top it allows you to show the whole landscape in all this epicness
without having a lot of boring dead space so I'm gonna shoot three images
one right one middle and one to the left and it should come out like a really
nice sliver of the earth
honestly I'm not usually that much of a fan of Panos I think they're a little
bit lazy like a safe way to make a flat image look cool rather than by creating
depth we're really working on your composition but that said nothing looks
more incredible blown up and printed on a wall than a really really good pano
I'm not sure if you can see them but there's a bunch of Buffalo now in the
foreground of my shot i-it's been fun up here it was really
windy but it was fun I think now it's time to kind of head back grab some
breakfast to relax a little bit and then we'll see what sunset my sunset location
now which is this cool little spot on the sea and I'm actually gonna try to do
three different sub niches of landscape photography here at this spot the first
is going to be drone aka aerial photography and the thing I love about
aerial photography beyond the fact that you can get a different perspective
beyond the fact that you can get to different spots that you can't get to on
land is the simple fact that it looks best before sunset so when you get to a
location like this about an hour hour and a half early you don't just sit
around waiting for the light you can put the drone up in the air and get some
photos while you wait so it's exactly what I'm gonna do
going ariel brings our landscape photography to new heights obviously but
the biggest challenge to aerial photography is reminding ourselves that
no matter how much cooler the world looks from above it's still so important
to follow the rules of composition up there look for leading lines the rule of
thirds and anchors just because it looks cool doesn't mean that it's a good photo
there's a fun flight and now I'm climbing down next to the sea on the
rocks to do the next shot which is those sexy
details if the hero image is full-body nudity then details is the tease of
landscape photography it's the curves of the earth it's the simplicity is the
textures and the movements for someone like me who really struggles with the
art component of photography the details challenge me they forced me to really
think and explore this he's kind of jumping so my muse I stare at it as I
talk to you in my opinion there's actually two ways of shooting the
details one is by getting up close and personal to the details of the earth and
I'd like to call that the intimate details we do that with a wide-angle
lens or like a 24-70mm or something like that and then the other way is
pulling out your telephoto lens and really reaching out into the landscape
and grabbing the details it's essentially the same idea it's grabbing
the details of the earth it's just kind of done in a different style
and the last one for the day is a classic seascape I got nothing but blue
skies it might be a bit of a challenge but I'm gonna try anyway so what makes a
seascape a seascape well it's not just the sea not every photo that has the sea
in it is a seascape instead a seascape is an image that features the sea well
more specifically as the main feature of the image and I guess the real defining
factor for me of a seascape photo is it shows how the sea interacts with the
shoreline the thing about seascape photography is you're almost always
putting your gear and yourself in a little bit of risk you got to be down on
the waves usually your feet and your tripod are getting hit by those waves
but if you make it work the results are cool I didn't get a great sunset but I
used a reverse grad ng and I think I still made it I made it work I think so
let's jump to tomorrow and our sunrise location
what a beautiful morning it looked like I wasn't gonna get light this
morning because there was heavy cloud and then for about a minute 2 minutes I
got some really really beautiful light so I did some typical seascape stuff and
now I'm on to my next form of landscape photography which is called big
landscape little person photography this type of photography really started to
get popular five years ago and it's essentially when you have that big
landscape but you put a tiny little model in your frame somewhere in the
distance to show the scale of the scene it doesn't really work here I haven't
found the perfect location for it still I think I might try it just to give you
guys an example I'm gonna set my camera up back here stand on a rock out in the
sea and then yeah photograph it in general big landscape little person
photography tends to work best when you have you know a second person when you
have a model because then you can be way back with a telephoto lens and then zoom
in and compress the landscape really showing off that scale but as I said
gonna give this a shot see how it comes out
I tried to make some big landscape little person photos here in botanas but
I kind of failed
is so instead here are some examples of
taken in other places around the world to kind of give you an idea of what
they're supposed to look like
there's a really really good morning shoot. Batanes just has been
incredible and I'm still looking forward to the next couple of shoots I have
still got a couple more styles of landscape photography I want to get out
the next form of landscape photography is
minimalism and I actually love minimalism because it's such a challenge
for me minimalist landscape photography is almost like the master class of
landscape photography and I've struggled a little bit here Impa tennis to find
the perfect spot for it until now I've come to this stone pier about thirty
minute drive from Basco and it is just beautiful so I'm gonna give this a shot
mastering minimalism is all about finding ways to simplify the world
whereas in the details you're looking for textures and patterns and minimalism
you're looking for simplicity I like to use a long exposure on my minimalism and
maybe even over expose it a little bit it flattens out the weather and the
water and if you really want to accentuate the minimalist feel to an
image search for tones and flip a photo to black and white
Batanes is saving the best for last check out this guy this is unreal
absolutely beautiful
I had planned on shooting this and then also maybe this lighthouse over here but
the lights just so good that I can't resist just taking shot after shot and I
think I have it nailed and I think because I haven't nailed I'm gonna end
this episode I had thoughts of doing Astro and time-lapse photography as well
but maybe those are videos for another day so I'm gonna sign off I hope you
enjoyed the episode be sure to stay subscribed because there's tons of fun
stuff coming up on the channel and hopefully I'll see you there
peace